SkiaSharp VS Microsoft.Maui.Graphics

Compare SkiaSharp vs Microsoft.Maui.Graphics and see what are their differences.

SkiaSharp

SkiaSharp is a cross-platform 2D graphics API for .NET platforms based on Google's Skia Graphics Library. It provides a comprehensive 2D API that can be used across mobile, server and desktop models to render images. (by mono)

Microsoft.Maui.Graphics

An experimental cross-platform native graphics library. (by dotnet)
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SkiaSharp Microsoft.Maui.Graphics
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8.7 0.0
6 days ago 10 months ago
C# C#
MIT License MIT License
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SkiaSharp

Posts with mentions or reviews of SkiaSharp. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-06-18.

Microsoft.Maui.Graphics

Posts with mentions or reviews of Microsoft.Maui.Graphics. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-04-04.
  • Discussion Thread
    4 projects | /r/neoliberal | 4 Apr 2023
    Microsoft.Maui.Graphics (which relies on Skia anyway but whatever)
  • ImageSharp leaving the .NET Foundation due to licensing change
    8 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 22 Oct 2022
    Yea, they can keep using the old versions, but that locks them out of the new versions and breaks expectations, especially since they were a member of the .NET Foundation. So it's up to them to keep using a version that won't get fixes or new features or accept the new license.

    This whole thing just points out how hard all of this is to get right. I understand both sides. But I do at least get the feeling that the ImageSharp team is a bit high strung.

    https://github.com/dotnet/Microsoft.Maui.Graphics/issues/47

    I think this is probably an intentional move to move away from Microsoft and the .NET Foundation in addition to trying to capitalize on people making a lot of money from the software package.

    After having looked at the license, it seems reasonable enough to me aside from the technicalities others have brought up. The vvvv tool follows a similar license of, it's free unless you make money from it.

  • Roundup of .NET MAUI - Week of June 27, 2022
    5 projects | dev.to | 5 Jul 2022
    This set of SkiaSharp views can be added to any .NET MAUI application for drawing. This is similar to what you can do with the built-in GraphicsView and Microsoft.Maui.Graphics, but directly to SkiaSharp.
  • Minimalistic fluent api in C# to create complex reactive Avalonia applications
    6 projects | /r/dotnet | 13 May 2022
    There's Microsoft.Maui.Graphics as well so that the renderer will not rely on native controls just like Avalonia and Flutter (but currently it's experimental). MAUI's flexible enough to enable that scenario, the bigger question is more on motivation from either MS or the community to make it happen.
  • Views in Comet
    2 projects | dev.to | 15 Jan 2022
    For colors you have your choice of solid paint, linear and radial gradient paint, and more provided by Microsoft.Maui.Graphics.
  • ASP.NET Core updates in .NET 6 Release Candidate 2 - Native dependencies for Blazor WebAssembly!
    2 projects | /r/Blazor | 13 Oct 2021
    This work is a pre-cursor to Blazor WebAssembly support coming in the Microsoft.MAUI.Graphics repo, giving us a single .Net API to draw on all platforms MAUI supports, along with Blazor.
  • Does MAUI support web somehow?
    5 projects | /r/dotnet | 31 Mar 2021
    It doesn't support web. The most promising components at the moment to make this happen are: - https://github.com/dotnet/GraphicsControls . First they will need to get this working with normal platforms. - https://github.com/dotnet/Microsoft.Maui.Graphics . A dependency of the above library. Web code exists here but is not yet functional. - Blazor. In order to deploy usable Blazor wasm apps they need to get AOT support working: https://github.com/dotnet/aspnetcore/issues/5466 (Note the blazor you read about that is connected with MAUI is just another style of writing MAUI apps and doesn't allow MAUI apps to run on the web.)

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